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November 22, 1929 WI'LMETTE '" LIFE 47 CHARITY BALL PATRONESS Mrs. Frank Barrett is to be a Kenilworth. patroness for the charity ball sponsored by the Illinois Childrens' Home and Aid society Wednesday, December 18, at the Evanston Country club. At Woman's Club Frederick Clerk, superintendent ~)f New Trier Higl1 school, gave the morning address at the Woman's club ~·f Wilmette Wednesday morning, describ ing the school systems in Europe, stressing, in his most interesting talk, the French system, for the greatc·;t part of his stay abroad was spent in France. Education in France, he declared, consist s in developing the :ntellect and does not concern itself with character building. He told of th e t>art recreation plays in the school program, stating that fencing and dumb-bell exercises comprise the organized recreation, offering competition, but competition only for the individual, as the schools do not indulge in games where team work is requested. This lack of · training in cooperation is manife sted in later years, according to Mr. Clerk. The French have ministers of publir instruction, the speaker remarked and not school superintendents. The French teachers .have certain privileges and are given distinction because of their learning. Mr. Clerk commented upon the French language, and explained how, in his opinion, it influ- , enced the character of the people. He spoke of what he had learn ed from the German system, particularlv in matters of science, and said that in Czechoslovakia some of the American sys tems are being adopted since th e war. Mrs. H. F. Dernehl gave a splendid talk on the Girl Scout movement. She emphasized that Girl Scouting reco~ nizes no one d octrin e, although 1t stre sses "duty and love and loyaltv : 1 God and to His Every creature," lo·· l' fo r one's country and duty to her neighbor and teaches re sourceittlne ,~ and cooperation. Mrs. Derneh l md rle a plea for more captains to lead addi tional troops. She announced that there is a long list of girls waiting to en~t'r the work but that at present there a,r ~..' not enough leaders. Mr . Ralph ~foulding, chairman of the \Vilm et~~: committee, may be communicated wit 1J by anyone interested in helping ~1 :-s. Dernehl advised. The following took part in a girl sco ut demonstration: Betty Smith. _ Betty Kay Morgan, Phyllis Richard sot. Lois Wolfe, Mary Ella Waidner, Ruth \Villiams, Frances Haskin, Jean Ann Moulding, Janet \Vrig-ht, Alice Dc !·nehl, and Miss Lillia Mae Humphrie s. I ~fembers of the \Voman's club !'i \Vilmette were given a review of Anterican history by R. 0. Rolvaag in hi " talk on the "Vikings of the ~Iiddk \Vest," last \\.edne sday aftemoon .tt the club. Mr. Rolvaag, who cleliverccl an ii itensely interesting lecture on the earlY ~orwegian pioneers in the middle \\·est cited numerous incident s from hi , tn n ni the trials and tribulation s of the tarly settlers, and prese nted Scandin;l vian names that will remain immortal because of the courage and dctnmin<~ ~ion of those who bore them. "In 1790," said Mr. Rolvaag, "when the first census was taken there w:ts a total white population of three mil lion in America, and most of the settkments were, of course, on the Atlan tic sea coast. The noted author mc ,1tionecl such names as Glen Peterse n. Elling Eielsen, "snow shoe" Jo.hn Thompson, and other early Norweg1c111 pioneers, who paved the way for. ~he present large middle western Cities. Elling Eielsen in 1839 founded ~he first Norwegian Lutheran chur~h .111 A':1erica in La Salle county, IllinOIS, wh.de in 1841 he walked to New York C1tv from La Salle county to have the first Norwegian Lutheran catachism printccl in English, which was also the . fi r-;t Norwegian book to be pnnted in English. Glen Petersen, wh.o tramped through the middle w~st, ~~ said to have refused to trade h1s old 1 pipe for an acre of land in the present English he experienced a . dreadful site of the "loop," Chicago, and when helplessness in not being able to exhe tram~ed o n up to Milwaukee soon h' 'd A · after this proposed barter, he foulld press ts t eas to . mencans. He reI marked that there is also a deep on Y t 1 uec houses in that city. \Vhilc tragedy bet\veen the immigrant mother "snow shoe" John Thompson a stat- who knows little English, and her son, wart ~orw~~{ian, carried the mail bags who is mastering the American langu~cross th ~ Sierra mountains, California, age and so becoming estranged from Ill the Wlllter time, htadng the bliz- his mother and native traditions. zards and cold , hut "enjoving the scenery." · A group of delightful violin selectio:1s were played by Mrs. C. R. Jernberg Mr. Rolvaag, who came t o this of Chicago, preceding Mr. Rolvaag;s country \~hen a hoy, did not master talk. Mrs. Jernberg played in a masthe English language until after he · terly mann er with a delicate touch. was 22 years old, and he remarked that Miss Alpha Turnquist accompanied a· during the period when he knew no the piano. I · E'D A Wilmette 1332 I. 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